All these extra taxes on the 'rich' are just a divesrion from the fact that WE don't really want to pay the tax for public services. One off bankers taxes, brings in a bit ( a few ?bn?), the actual numbers of really high earners in this country is just a few 100,000, corporation tax evasion is another myth of solving all our problems that the left seems to believe in, go and google how many houses are in the top band for Council tax. The 50% rate has many believed been a net negative contributor to tax revenue (will almost certainly be in the long run) and any other hike above that is economic suicide as those of us of a certain age remember. Yes, loopholes can and should be closed, I don't mind the idea of making foreign investors in properties ppaying proper ie our rates tax on homes here BUT These are pinpricks - I haven't time now to dig out all the defeceit figures and annual budget but a defeaceit of about 11% of our current annual spend and growing strains on future budgets because of demographics and Pension liabilities etc means that if we had 'no cuts' as the shreiking harridans of the left would like, we'd need a basic tax rate way, way, way above what it is now. Bankers, Philip Green and Russian Mafia can't fill this hole folks. It's down to you and me - do you want say a 35% basic rate and 60% upper rate on earnings above 40K, respecially with tuition fees, no pension (if your private sector natch -NOTE NOT A BANKER OR ONE OF THE FEW HUNDREDS OF FTSE 100 chiefs). No, even Labour know it the cuts are here, to stay, and neccessary, Sh1tty but true.